plump.
dumpy, squat, bulky (roundish and misshapen)
Meaning & usage
dumpy, squat, bulky (roundish and misshapen)
Diese sogenannte Skulptur ist nur ein plumper, rostiger Metallklotz.
clumsy, heavy, graceless, inelegant
Er kam mit seinem plumpen, stampfenden Gang auf uns zugeschwankt.
Die Rede des Kandidaten war gespickt mit plumpen Anbiederungsversuchen.
brash, tactless, crude
Er näherte sich der jungen Frau mit plumpen Sprüchen.
Where this word comes from
From Middle Low German plump, itself onomatopoeic for a dull fall (as of a stone into water, or a sack on the ground). Cognate with Dutch and Middle Dutch plomp (13th c.), whence also English plump. Alemannic German has shifted forms in Alsatian pflumpfig, Swiss pflumpfet, but these were probably formed analogically as the word moved up the Rhine (and thus do not prove West Germanic inheritance).
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